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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

New Trends of Sustainable Development of Manufacturing Industry

New Trends of Sustainable Development of Manufacturing Industry



Establish a sound system for technological innovation is the key to the sustainable development of China”s equipment manufacturing industry. Of technological innovation system of the equipment manufacturing industry is a common Basic Research → Research → Product Development → industrialization, this structure shows that based on common technology is indispensable, and research institutes in China structural reform to the weakening or even absence of the R & D based on common technology are already evident, is not conducive to the overall innovation. At present, the conversion Institutes of public services to rebuild infrastructure and common technology platform has become essential; otherwise it will affect our overall strategic process of the establishment of an innovative country.


So, what industry is considered high-end equipment manufacturing industry? Next focus of development where? Summed up the view of experts, the areas covered by the high-end equipment manufacturing industry, including aviation equipment, satellite and its application industry, rail transportation equipment marine engineering equipment, and intelligent manufacturing equipment, and so on. These industries have a technology-intensive, high added value and strong leading role, the high-end part of the equipment manufacturing industry, and all belong to the emerging industry. Traditional industries cannot be assigned to them. For example, one million kilowatts of ultra-supercritical generating units, although a high-end part of the manufacturing sector, but it belongs to the traditional industries, and therefore cannot be included in the areas of focus on the development of high-end equipment manufacturing. Some ore equipment manufacturer – ball mill manufacturers must also forward to the high-end intelligent, in order to meet development needs.

 
In the various fields of high-end equipment manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing equipment is still relatively new concept, but also much concern. The so-called intelligent manufacturing equipment is the perception, analysis, reasoning, decision making, manufacturing equipment control functions; it is an advanced manufacturing technology, information technology and smart technology integration and depth of integration. The development of intelligent manufacturing equipment include: focus on promoting high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment, complete production line automation, intelligent control systems, sophisticated and intelligent instruments and instrumentation and test equipment, the key foundation components, parts and general parts, intelligent dedicated equipment development of production process automation, intelligent, precision, green, driving the overall technology level of the industry. Example, in the field of sophisticated and intelligent instrumentation and test equipment, it should address the development of biological, energy saving and environmental protection, petrochemical and other industries need to focus on the development of intelligent pressure, flow, level, composition, materials, mechanical properties, such as precision instrument and scientific instruments and the environment, security and defense, special testing equipment. In key infrastructure components, parts and general parts of the field to focus on the development of high-parameter, high precision and high reliability bearings, hydraulic / pneumatic / sealing components, gear drives and large, sophisticated, complex, long-life mold and so on.china jaw crusher:http://www.hxjqchina.com/n69.html


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In the field of intelligent dedicated equipment should focus on the development of a new generation of large electric power and grid equipment, robotics industry, TBM, rapid integration of flexible construction equipment such as intelligent construction machinery, as well as large advanced and efficient intelligent agricultural machinery.
 Also, the large aircraft, regional aircraft and general aviation aircraft for the application object, the use of aircraft manufacturing, the combination of machine tool manufacturing and materials production enterprises, the focus on the development of composite materials preparation equipment, automatic auxiliary band / auxiliary wire device, component processing machine, ultrasonic processing / high pressure water cutting equipment and grinding ball mill equipment.

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3-D printing could remake U.S. manufacturing – USATODAY.com

3-D printing could remake U.S. manufacturing – USATODAY.com

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

A Burden Now, a Blessing Later?

A Burden Now, a Blessing Later?
Posted by David McCann | July 05, 2012

I’m a lifelong, avid baseball fan, and when others of my ilk pose “best player” questions, I always query back: best over the course of his career, or best at the peak of his abilities? Sandy Koufax had a short career during which he was inconsistent in the early years but more than brilliant for a final few. Don Sutton was at no time regarded as among the best few pitchers, but bit by bit, over 23 years, he compiled a set of numbers that eventually propelled him, like his one-time teammate Koufax, to the Hall of Fame.http://www3.cfo.com/blogs/human-capital-careers/human-capital--careers-blog/2012/07/A-Burden-Now-a-Blessing-Later
Those guys played decades ago. But these days, when I hear people voice opinions on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — which has been quite often the past two-plus years, reaching a crescendo recently — I notice a reminiscent whiff of that baseball dichotomy. By that I mean, if someone asks me whether I think this law makes sense, I want to rejoin with: over the short term, or over the long term?
In today’s immediacy, the machinations and regulatory interpretations of the law are imposing pain on a host of parties, including health-care providers, insurers, and, most notably to CFO’s audience, companies generally. The costs of compliance are annoying and frustrating. Many are angry at Congress for allegedly overstepping its authority in passing the still-new law, and at the Supreme Court for last week endorsing that supposed faux pas. Some CFOs, as we reported then, are dismayed that they still don’t have closure on the fate of the law, given that the next Congress will probably continue the lively fight over whether to modify or repeal it.
Those are certainly understandable and reasonable objections — even the last one, despite some comments posted to our article that railed against the CFOs quoted in it for sounding like they were too ineffectual to move forward. Please, give these finance chiefs a break. They and their peers strive for efficiency, a goal that is significantly hampered, when it comes to health-care benefits, by having to comply with a law that may or may not exist a year from now.
Still, if even the short-term implications of the law and the court decision are not clear, can anyone say with even modest confidence what the long-term implications might be?
For example, what if the PPACA were allowed to fully flower? If, as the law contemplates, providers were paid based on patient outcomes, rather than on the number of patient visits, procedures performed, and tests ordered? If insurers were forced by the law to reduce administrative costs in order to avoid mandatory customer rebates? If the state health-insurance exchanges that may be created under the law worked so well that many companies could eventually find relief from the burden of paying for workers’ health care at all, not to mention the compliance burden?
Look, I know it’s not as simple as that. The PPACA has many provisions that may be cost factors for corporations in both the short and long terms. The incremental dollars to be pumped into the health-care system by the mandate that almost everyone obtain health insurance might not be enough to pay for all the concessions the insurance industry made, like eliminating annual and lifetime coverage caps and the prohibition on denying coverage to anyone, even those with chronic pre-existing conditions. Additionally, numerous unintended consequences of the law, negative or positive, are almost certain to crop up.
But it was never intended to be an immediate panacea to all of the woes related to health care that plague our society, the economy, and corporate bottom lines. It is a stake in the ground that acknowledges those woes that explicitly says, “There are problems afoot. They need to be dealt with.” And that implicitly says, “Here is a start. And from this start, we can smooth out the law and make it better and fairer over time.”

Companies should, with respect to the health-care arena, climb out of their quarter-to-quarter foxhole, support efforts to gradually improve the system, and look to a farther time horizon. It’s just possible that the view might not be as terrifying as they thought.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

US manufacturing shrinks for first time in 3 years

BY NEIL SHAH AND BEN CASSELMAN



The global economic slowdown has finally caught up with American manufacturers.
The U.S. factory sector shrank in June for the first time since July 2009—the first month of the economic recovery—the Institute for Supply Management said Monday. Exports fell, and new orders, which gauge future factory activity, dropped at their fastest pace since the post-9/11 plunge in October 2001.

The report is the strongest evidence yet that Europe's troubles and slowing growth in China are hurting American factories, one of the biggest drivers of the U.S. recovery. Separate reports have shown U.S. exports fell in April for the first time.


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